Rimma Bijoux

My name is Rimma Delacrétaz. I’m an artist and the founder of Rimma Bijoux, Swiss Botanical Art Jewelry, where real leaves, flowers, and seeds take on new life in the form of symbolic jewellery, thanks to the art of  electroplating.

My path towards this art form has not been a simple straight line, but rather has been built up over the years as each new passion came naturally to join the others in one and the same quest for meaning and creation.

I was born and grew up in Kazakhstan, in a deeply artistic family. My mother is a painter; my father played the accordeon, and my grandmother sang all the time. I feel as though music was part of me even before I was born. I learned to sing before I learned to talk, and started learning to play the piano at the age of seven. Later I studied music in a music school, then in a music college, and finally obtained a Conservatory degree in musicology. I then taught music and worked for several years in a music college in Russia.

In 2014 I set out on a trip through Asia. This is when Tai Chi Qi Gong came into my life and showed me a new and different way to experience time, attentiveness, and presence in everything I did. Over the years I studied under many different masters and in several schools in various countries in order to go deeper into this path.

In 2016, a new chapter in my life began when love brought me to Switzerland. I have been teaching Tai Chi Qi Gong since 2019. I give courses in Yvorne, in the Canton of Vaud, and also give private piano lessons. For two years I led the Montreux Gospel Singers choir.

In 2019, in the course of my travels, I discovered plant electroplating. I was deeply fascinated by the fact that a fragile leaf could maintain its shape and acquire a new life from metal. This thought stayed with me for several years and yet, despite a strong inner calling, I didn’t feel ready to follow this new path, for I still identified myself above all as a musician and a Tai Chi Qi Gong teacher.

It wasn’t until the end of 2024, and thanks to my husband’s support, that I finally allowed myself to follow my intuition. In February 2025 I began training in electroplating and I continue even now to study and work to improve my skills. I have also taken training in jewellery in Vevey. The creation of my first piece of jewellery marked the beginning of a new artistic path which, in unexpected ways, combines everything that had nourished my life up until then.

When I discover a leaf, the main thing I feel is gratitude. Nature has already created a perfect work and it’s not my role to transform it, but to preserve its story. Thanks to metal, natural stones, and a long, patient, meticulous process, nature’s little marvel prolongs its existence in a new form.

Since the summer of 2025 I’ve been taking part in various art fairs, festivals, and exhibitions in the cantons of Vaud, Valais, and Geneva. I perceive each of these encounters with people as an extension of the creative process, for I experience enormous joy at seeing my jewellery resonate in the hearts of men and women, thereby becomng more than just pieces of adornment. They become personal symbols and bearers of meaning and history.

Nowadays my creations invite people to slow down and to reconnect with nature and with their own inner strength. I am never more touched than when I see someone put on a piece of jewellery and immediately feel that it is made for them. In that instant, the piece ceases to be a simple object and becomes a symbol, a talisman, and part of that person’s personal history. In the face of such beauty, my desire is not to transform anything, but to preserve it.